The structure is carried by heavy steel columns and beams. Around it, a 150 mm galvanized LSTK frame forms the walls and floors, filled with monolithic foam concrete cast between the exterior insulation board and the interior cement board. Scroll to watch it built, stage by stage.
Heavy steel is the primary structure — the columns and rigels carry every load. The 150 mm LSTK frame is not the main frame; it forms the walls and floors around that steel skeleton. Cast together with monolithic foam concrete between the insulation board outside and the cement board inside, the four systems work as one: the strength of steel, the precision of light-steel walls, and a solid, sealed, monolithic envelope.
Square-tube columns of 200 × 200 mm — larger where the calculation asks for it — and heavy-steel rigels on a grid set by the design: a free plan with no internal load-bearing walls, minimum internal columns, and high seismic resistance.
A galvanized light-steel frame forms the walls and floors around the steel skeleton: accurate geometry, fast assembly, and low construction weight.
The wall cavity is filled with monolithic foam concrete — strong thermal and acoustic insulation, fire resistance — one continuous monolithic fill.
Outside, 80 mm insulation — XPS or basalt mineral wool (Rockwool or equivalent) — fixed outside the frame; it stays in the finished wall. Inside, the cement board stays as permanent formwork — part of the finished structure, not scaffolding taken away later.
The heavy-steel frame is engineered for the wind and seismic loads of Cyprus — designed and detailed for the ground each building stands on.
A durable steel structure inside a sealed monolithic envelope, backed by a 100-year warranty on the steel frame and VAN Foamcrete — other materials carry their manufacturers' warranties — and built for decades of Mediterranean sun and salt.
A reinforced concrete base with cast-in anchor plates, levelled to receive the steel frame. Every build starts from a foundation engineered for its ground.
Reinforced concrete · anchor platesHeavy steel columns go up first. They carry the vertical, wind, and seismic loads and give the building its overall stability — the primary structure.
Primary structureHeavy steel beams — rigels — tie the columns together at each floor and carry the loads across the spans. The steel skeleton is now complete.
Rigels · load transferA 150 mm galvanized light-steel frame is built around the heavy-steel skeleton, forming the walls and floors — accurate, light, and fast to assemble.
Galvanized wall frame25 mm hat profiles are fixed horizontally across the LSTK frame, stiffening the walls and supporting them during construction.
25 mm horizontal profilesThe flat roof steel frame — joists span the top, and heavy cantilever beams reach forward to carry the full-width canopy over the verandas.
Cantilevered canopy80 mm insulation — XPS or basalt mineral wool (Rockwool or equivalent) — is fixed outside the frame. It insulates, and it stays in the finished wall.
XPS / mineral wool 80 mmCement-bonded particle boards line the inside of the frame. They remain in the wall as permanent formwork — the inner face of the finished wall.
Interior · permanent formworkMonolithic foam concrete is cast into the cavity between the insulation board and the CSP — cast to fill the cavity without voids by design, sealing the wall for warmth, quiet, and fire resistance.
Monolithic · cast without gapsThe 10 mm decorative stone closes over the frame — coursed ashlar with a combed face, deep reveals at every opening and stone sills.
Decorative stone · 10 mmThe flat roof extends into a full-width canopy sheltering a veranda on each floor, wrapped in a clean dark fascia. No columns interrupt the terrace.
Floating canopy · two verandasPanoramic floor-to-ceiling glazing, glass balustrades, and a warmly lit interior complete it. From foundation to finished villa — developed, engineered, and built by one team.
Developed & built in-houseThe structure you have just watched go up is the same under every style. Pick the outer 10 mm — plaster, columns, mouldings or stone — and we build it on your plot.
Every layer — from the heavy steel and the LSTK frame to the façade stone — is specified and traceable. No anonymous materials, anywhere in the house.
Heavy steel carries the loads. Around it, one wall in layers: the LSTK frame sets the geometry, hat profiles stiffen it, and monolithic foam concrete fills the cavity — cast between the insulation board outside and the cement board inside, which stays in place as permanent formwork.
302 mm in total — 302–327 mm depending on the profile
A steel truss of VAN C-profile, at least 300 mm deep, spans up to 24 m without an internal column. Services run inside it, in HDPE ducts, and a Foamcrete slab is cast on top.
Supply-and-exhaust ventilation runs on both floors: a constant exchange of air that removes moisture and helps keep the house comfortable all year.
A modified foam concrete developed for our own wall and floor system — cast monolithically between the insulation board and the cement board — low shrinkage, and designed to resist cracking.
A fraction of the weight of concrete, with the strength the wall needs.
Millions of closed cells hold heat out in summer and in during winter.
The same cells damp sound between rooms and from the street.
Mineral, non-combustible, and it does not give off smoke.
It does not rot, and it protects the steel it surrounds.
Cast in one pour, it is designed to hold the shape it was cast in.
Bonds to the LSTK profiles and the formwork as one monolithic wall.
Cement, water, air and our additive — nothing that outgasses.
Real footage from the roll-forming line that shapes our LSTK C-profiles — set up digitally, formed from galvanized steel coil, and checked to the millimetre.
